2-B-B-2, 600 VDC, 42" Gauge, Built in 1931, one of 18 from 4 manufacturers, with a small freight train. This unit was built by Hitachi, was preserved then, regretfully scrapped in 2015. Li... (more)

A great bunch of retired stablemates rest in the sunshine. Photo by Mike Dolenski, from my collection.

The Class C62 was the biggest and fastest japanese build steam locomotive. This locomotive hauled the Tsubame express on the Tōkaidō Main Line between Tokyo and Osaka. Also it set the wo... (more)

Preserved on static display in the "19th Century Hall"

The first Japanese Shinkansen carriage to be exhibited outside Japan was unveiled at Britain's National Railway Museum in York by His Excellency The Ambassador of Japan. Built in 1976, Series 0 ca... (more)

When O.S. Nock visited Miyazaki depot he had the good fortune to find this C57 Pacific bedecked with two Japanese flags and a golden chrysanthemum after working the Imperial train. Within hours it... (more)

When O.S. Nock visited Miyazaki depot he had the good fortune to find this C57 Pacific bedecked with two Japanese flags and a golden chrysanthemum after working the Imperial train. Within hours it... (more)

Another of the O.S. Nock 6 x 6cm negatives bought at auction. This view is of C61 20, one of 33 Baltics built in 1947-49 utilising boilers taken from D51 class 2-8-2s. At the time Japan had more h... (more)

Many years ago I purchased a number of negatives at auction that had been taken by the late O.S. Nock, the famed British railway author and signal engineer at Westinghouse Brake & Signal Co. Among... (more)

A light freight from Tomakomai to Mukawa comes across Mitsuishi-gawa bridge. This area is known as Japanese Thoroughbred farms.

On display in the main hall of The Railway Museum in Saitama City just north of Tokyo, is the first JNR limited express EMU. It was built in 1965, with a maximum speed of 110 kmph and a travel tim... (more)

All dressed up and no place to go! The "Polar Express" comes to mind when looking at this former Japanese National Railways class C11 2-6-4 tank loco, plinthed in a public square next to Shimbashi... (more)

This is a diesel hydraulic with the really weird wheel arrangement of B-2-B. Nice big comfortable cab. I wonder how it handles curves. As in some places in Europe locomotives in Japan are often... (more)

"Hudson" C 62 2 steam locomotive (operational) in the Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum in Kyoto, which openend in 1972. A 20-track concrete roundhouse from 1914 houses 19 locomotives, several opera... (more)

The C57 were graceful little engines. It has been a long time, but I believe this is a Sasebo to Nagasaki local approaching the junction at Haiki where the branch to Sasebo joins the mainline to ... (more)